Brian Lear on WNC.

We here at WNY are lucky to have arguably

the single best housing reporter in the city

on our staff these days, David Brand,

who joined last year.

Some of his recent stories on the radio and on a local news website,

Gothamist include Landlord Drops Challenge to Rent Stabilization

at Manhattan's biggest department complex that

star town Peter Cooper Village. Midtown leaders call for housing not tennis

courts on site of stalled Penn 15 skyscraper.

That's the one being built or considered around Penn Station.

Skodis, the Supreme Court of the United States,

rejects challenges to New York's rent

stabilization rules and looking for an affordable two-bedroom apartment for a

family, the odds are against you. We'll touch on a few of these, but concentrate mostly on that last one about

affordable housing for families right now. It turns out about 70% of the new apartments that

the city is creating under Mayor Adams for the housing lottery system

are studios or one bedrooms and many of those are in neighborhoods where many

families with children live that despite the mayor saying this when he

announces housing policy in 2022. We have a hemogen of black and brown

families leaving New York because it's no longer affordable.

We've decimated the middle class and we need to refocus our attention on stabilizing these

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